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• American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

  Tony Snow

  Perfect, Abu Ghraib, Prison

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• Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

  Ashley Judd

  Believe, Condom Use, Aids Epidemic

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• Certainly there’s a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they would be talking to Al Qaeda, that there would be some Al Qaeda there or that Saddam Hussein might even be, you know, discussing gee, I wonder since I don’t have any scuds and since the Americans are coming at me, I wonder if I could take advantage of Al Qaeda? How would I do it? Is it worth the risk? What could they do for me?

  Wesley Clark

  Talking, Iraq, Risk

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• Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Birth Control, Remember

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.

  Elliot Easton

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I am trying to describe and discuss are beyond my abilities. I am trying, however, the best I can, and will go back over this as carefully as possible when I am finished, and will make changes and corrections whenever I can see a way to make what I'm discussing clearer or more interesting without fabricating anything.

  David Foster Wallace

  Interesting, Intellectual, Trying

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Distance, Party, Winning

  "Andrew Breitbart on 'Hannity': 'This Is Not About Shirley Sherrod'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.

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• I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples.

  Lauren Collins

  Party, Two, Feet

  "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.

  Khaled Mashal

  Islamic, Reality, Common Vision

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• You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, People, Relaxation

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids can really make a difference, physically and mentally. I'd be really disappointed if I had been ranked No. 2 behind someone who took steroids.

  Chris Evert

  Player, Differences, Making A Difference

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• We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Sex, Men, Emotional

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• We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Understanding, Use, Have Faith

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• One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

  John Scofield

  Music, Player, Ideas

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• In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fall, Rome, Christianity

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• So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Doctors, Abortion, Patient

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• On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.

  F. David Peat

  Reality, Thinking, Rocks

  F. David Peat (1990). “Einstein's moon: Bell's theorem and the curious quest for quantum reality”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

  Che Guevara

  Ideas, World, Youth

  "On Revolutionary Medicine". Speech delivered to the Cuban Militia, www.marxists.org. August 19, 1960.

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• The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

  Marc Benioff

  Real, Phones, Mail

  "Communicate Like a Billion-Dollar Entrepreneur". Interview with Carmine Gallo, www.theladders.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.

  Helen Dunmore

  Powerful, Reading, Journey

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• When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Sight, Agreement, Littles

  "Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold". Work by Simon Conway Morris, January 7, 2000.

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• Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?

  Javed Akhtar

  Suicide, Religion, Doe

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• To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.

  Anatole Broyard

  Character, Men, Tragedy

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• Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly... and discussing public question. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all... but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.

  Jason Epstein

  Communication, Rights, Views

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